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Anja wrote:I’ll not do the “lesson proper” until I get some feedback. (If you're all correct, maybe I won’t need to cover this.)

I'm stumped on this one, unless feedback is plural.

If someone is going to another country, it’s important that they get a passport.

Do we all have a passport?

Has everybody got their passport?

The mission team has chosen Janice to be their leader.

Probably nobody has forgotten the first time they travelled overseas.

Everyone should spend some of their time travelling for pleasure.

The rest are using a singular subject and a plural object (is object the right word? I've forgotten so much grammar) or vice versa. But I thought it had become common practice to use "they" instead of "he or she" or "he/she" or "s/he," since they all are so awkward.

"And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise." Philippians 4:8 NLT

I think the main problem was not matching the tenses up properly, but I also believe the generalizations of everyone and we don't work well in something meant for anyone to read.
Getting the singular subject with the singular predicate or something fancy like that that means match up the different part of sentences not in tenses oops but in plural and singular. I had tenses on the fingers, but my brain was thinking singular vs. plural. No wonder I felt like I needed to correct the examples instead of trying to explain them. It was a too tired brain day. Sorry about that.

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"And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise." Philippians 4:8 NLT

"And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise." Philippians 4:8 NLT

Always use SINGULAR PRONOUNS to refer to SINGULAR ANTECEDENTS and PLURAL PRONOUNS with PLURAL ANTECEDENTS.

Singular Pronouns as Antecedents

These pronouns are ALL singular:

eacheitherneitheranyoneanybodyeveryoneeverybodysomeonesomebodyno one (please note this word is NOT written noone or no-one)nobody

The pronouns referring to them should be singular.

Each of the riders took his own horse.Neither girl passed her test.Does everyone have his ticket?

Be aware that the last sentence, his is used even though the antecedent may be male or female. Be aware of objections to this practice, but the English language has no singular form that refers to either gender.

Because it is awkward to say his and hers, his or her, he or she, and him and her, feel free to use masculine pronouns in a universal sense. It is better, though, to avoid the problem by rephrasing the sentence.

"And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise." Philippians 4:8 NLT